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Distinguished
Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award
History of the Award
The Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award was first presented
at the Annual Conference in 2001. The Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement
Award was initiated in to recognize a distinguished scholar for a lifetime
contribution that has had a significant impact on the field of literacy
theory, research, and practice. The award acknowledges an outstanding
individual who has not been actively involved in the National Reading
Conference in committee work, editorial work, or presentations, but whose
lifetime work, nevertheless, has had a major influence on literacy theory,
research, and practice of the NRC membership.
Criteria for Consideration for the Award
- The individual should be a distinguished scholar who has made a lifetime
contribution which has had a significant impact on the field of literacy
theory, research and practice, whether directly by working on some aspect
of literacy itself, or in a related field.
- The scholar is not, or was not, an active participant in NRC (e.g.,
a regular presenter, committee member or on editorial boards). If a
person could qualify to be nominated for the Oscar Causey Award, he/she
would not qualify to be nominated for the NRC Distinguished Scholars
Award. The scholar may belong to the organization, as long as the scholar’s
involvement has been primarily the receipt of the journals and/or the
yearbook.
- Application materials. Nominations for this award may be made by
a group of 10 (or more) NRC members who present a written nomination
signed by these members to the committee chair with a brief description
of the significance of the scholar’s contribution and the impact
this scholar has had on the field. The group should pick a spokesperson
from the group nominating this person who will work with the committee
chair, if needed.
Nomination materials may be sent electronically or in hard copy to the
Committee Chair:
Margaret Finders
Work: 608-785-8128
finders.marg@uwlax.edu
Mailing/Delivery Address:
University of Wisconsin La Crosse
235 Morris Hall
1725 State Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
Review Process
- The committee chair will convene the committee at, or shortly after,
the Annual Conference and generate a short list of names to be considered
for the award. The committee chair will also include any nominations
from the membership to be included on the initial short list. The nomination
should be completed by the May Board Meeting.
- Nominations for this award may be made by a group of 10 (or more)
NRC members who present a written nomination signed by these members
to the committee chair with a brief description of the significance
of the scholar’s contribution and the impact this scholar has
had on the field. The group should pick a spokesperson from the group
nominating this person who will work with the committee chair, if needed.
- In drawing up the initial list of nominees, the committee must discuss
whether each scholar truly qualifies for this award. (They must not
be able to qualify for the Oscar Causey award.) Once the list has been
determined, the names must be checked with headquarters, the officers,
and the editors of the publications about each nominee’s participation
in the organization and whether they qualify for the award. The committee
must agree that all nominees qualify before proceeding to the next step.
- Each committee member should select and sponsor one or more nominees
from the generated list, presenting him/her (them) to the committee.
A brief description must be written for each of the selected nominees
describing the significance of each scholar’s contribution and
the impact each scholar has had on the field. This information will
be shared by e-mail with all committee members. Also, included would
be any nominees obtained from the membership with the description provided
as part of the member nomination process. (If needed, the committee
chair may call on the spokesperson of this member group to add information
on their nominee.)
- Committee members must then dialogue and try to reach a consensus.
If the committee needs to limit the field, each committee member will
select one nominee. The work to reach consensus would continue. If consensus
is not reached, no award will be given.
- The committee chair will report the selection of the award recipient
to the President, who will present the name to the Board for final approval.
Arrangements must be made to invite the award recipient to receive the
award and present at the next conference or organize scholars familiar
with the work of a posthumous recipient to present. A written version
of the presentation will be solicited for one of the publications.
Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Ann Brown (2000-2001)
Louise Rosenblatt (2002)
Marie Clay (2003)
Courtney B. Cazden (2004)
Jerome Bruner (2007)
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